Founding Design Engineer

• Translate company strategy and user needs into visual language. Concretely, that means product UI and user stories. You turn a go-to-market bet into something people immediately understand.
• Own and evolve the design system. The rules, components, patterns, and principles that allow our engineering team to iterate quickly without sacrificing legibility.
• Author front-end code within reason. Enough to build and maintain the design system in code, prototype your own ideas, and ship polish without waiting in an eng queue. You won't carry a backend load (unless you're interested); we have a full team for that.

The honest split

This role is roughly 70% design, 30% code. We have a full team for feature development, but you'll need to be self-sufficient prototyping and able to iterate on frontend-specific production changes yourself. If you're a brilliant designer who codes enough to be dangerous, you're exactly who we want; if you're an engineer who dabbles in design, this probably isn't your seat.